In a few days more motor ear] licences for the last quarter of the year have to be purchased. 'This means that those car owners who are not wealthy. enough *to keep a chauffeur will have to fish out a spanner and get throug' with the irritating little job of] taking off the la 6 enamel dises and replay with the dises for the current. qui ter. The idea of a distinguishing mark to show that a ear has its licence: for the quarter is u good one, but we with all" resp that the Council's present scheme needlessly cumbersome.
Nei ito effective as it might be, for the enamel with which the diss painted easily erneks and chips, and consistent spell of wet weather rusts the discs over to such an extent as to make the colour un. recognizable.
Our suggestion that the Council scheme which the use of li a prominent place the vehicle licensed. The ug out of an old eard and the placing in of the new one is a very simple matter compared with the! present procedure of unscrew! nuts and bolts and then serewing them back again, It might be! argued that the cards could ea be imitated, to which the reply that the dises are just as. copied, if not more so. Further-mora, "the average English car is already fitted witha slide for the licence card or with the "barnacle" contrivance for the same purpose. Cards would be cheaper for. the!
and simpler for
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